ABSTRACT
For more than three decades, the problem of large-scale, structural unemployment has been a central concern of informed opinion in the Caribbean as indeed, elsewhere in the developing world. According to Farrell (1978), Caribbean unemployment has largely been attributed to a shortage of capital, to the malfunctioning of the labour market, excessive rates of population growth, the importation of inappropriate technologies, and the effects of colonisation. More specifically, Trinidad has recently witnessed a growth in unemployment following a severe economic recession, which resulted in the implementation of an IMF structural adjustment package. The inability of the country to provide work for a growing labour force has culminated in a rapid growth of informal sector activity.
